TRAMPER MISSING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 299, 1 October 1935, Page 6

TRAMPER MISSING

SEARCH PARTIES SET OUT.

’PLANE DISCOVERS NO TRACE.

HILLS IN WANGANUI DISTRICT. (Per Press Association). WANGANUI, This Day. Three search parties, including Constables Rogers and W. S. Rennie and member’s of the Ruapehu Ski Club', set out early this morning to search for a missing tramper, Mr T. Fyson, of Hawera.

Mr Fyson left Westmere at 11 a.m. on Friday. At mid-day he called at the house of Mrs Roidd on the" main Brunswick Road and! obtained hot water to make tea. He said he was going on the hills tramping at the back of Brunswick, which is rough country. It is thought he was making for Raorikia, on the banks of the Wanganui River.

A Western Federated ’plane, piloted by Mr J.»Strachan, left at 5.45 this morning and searched between Paparangi and Raorikia. It returned after an hour and a half’s flight, but it went out again at 9.45, intending to go through to the Waitotara River, hut misty weather came up and the airman returned an hour and 25 minutes later. Smoke from different fires has been seen, but it is believed that these are smouldering logs. Later it was learned that Mi" Fyson had! been, seen at the top of the Tokomaru East Road, where lie was believed to be making for the Wanganui River. There is a horse track across, and had he found this he would have had half an hour’s walking. He has probably gone deeper into the backcountry.